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Sending in silence, if you climb and don’t spray all about it on Instagram, did you even send?
The strongest climber I have ever had the pleasure of meeting has no social media, is hardly reachable by phone and is what you would consider to be your favorite climber’s favorite climber. He has sent the Heart Route on … Continue reading
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Red Heather Chaos: Hot Chocolate Tasting, Overslept Alarms, and Tree Wells – A Trip to Remember
Trip date: Saturday, March 15th Trip participants: Ann-Cathrin (AC) Muller, Sri Chaitanya, Diego Fernandez, Le Tra Mi Do, JJ James, Lucile Paschal, Eemaan Alam, Ellen Scott, Roseisa Weeraratne, Faisal Maqbool, Tristan Lefferts, Joanne Ho, Zack Peachell, Cecily Downs, Ivana Sanchez … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner-friendly, concussion, hot chocolate, large group, skiing, tree well
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The Art of Bailing
CONTENT WARNING: This article involves discussions of death in the mountains. Skip section 1 to avoid the heaviest discussion of the subject. §1 | INTRODUCTION People often describe certain skills as an art. In this sense, there is an art … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpine Climbing, bail, climbing, essay, ice climbing, philosophy, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, trad
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A Long Walk in the Dark: A Single-Push Base-to-Base Spearhead Traverse
TRIP DATES: March 6th – 7th, 2025 PARTICIPANTS: Erik Reimers, Evan Wong, Noah Macdonald BACKGROUND: The Spearhead The Spearhead Traverse is a classic ski mountaineering route in Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is a horseshoe-shaped circuit that links Blackcomb and Whistler Mountains. The … Continue reading
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Tagged overnight, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, ski traverse, Spearhead, Spearhead Traverse, Speed Traverse, Type 1 fun, type 2, type 2 fun
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Howe Lake via the Tatsquan Horseshoe: Should’ve just done Ape Lake.
Not a lot of trip reports this winter, even for some of the big events, sad times for readers like myself who’ve been trapped on the surface of mars for the past few months. I had a bit of free … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged Bella Coola, british columbia, hiking, mountaineering, roadtrip, Slog, Small Group, type 2 fun
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Duke Couloir
Trip Dates: Feb 15th – Feb 17th 2025 Participants: Lorin Jacot, Viv Liu, Skye McDonald, Ed Riley, Quintus Zhou Report written by Ed Riley with sections from Quintus Zhou and Skye McDonald. – The French word ‘couloir’ directly translates to the … Continue reading
Yamophilia
Yamophilia /jæmˈoʊfɪliə/ (noun) A love of or obsession with the mountain officially known as Mount Laurie (better known as Mount Yamnuska: a name borrowed from the Stoney Nakoda name Îyâmnathka, meaning “flat-faced mountain”). Yamnuska (abbreviated as “Yam”) is the birthplace … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, Alpine Climbing, choss, climbing, Epic, rock climbing, Rockies, Thunderstorm, trad, Type 1 fun, type 2, type 2 fun, Yamnuska
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Puttering Around In The Cold (Climbing Ice In The Canadian Rockies)
What follows is a barely coherent account of the trip Noah Macdonald and I took out to the Rockies over reading break, with a guest appearance by Evan Wong that was unfortunately cut short by unforeseen circumstances. In the end, … Continue reading
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North Joffre Boomerang
Author: Julian Larsen Trip Dates: February 15-17th, 2025 Trip Participants: Julian Larsen, Erik Reimers, Leon Chen, Stefanija Rekasius, Sri Chaitanya, Nadia Tarazi, Harrison Crerar At the beginning of 2025 I moved to Squamish for an 8 month co-op placement. While … Continue reading
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Rainbow Mountain -2nd time’s the charm
Rainbow Mountain is the peak across the valley from Whistler Blackcomb. Sitting at 2314m it doesn’t seem particularly notable, but the deep valleys on all sides give it over 1000m of prominence. Having attempted it in first year with John … Continue reading